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I get the same results with Chrome on Windows. What program are you using to create the HTML? It looks like it is FrontPage or Expression.

There are additional characters embedded in the html and it all ends up displayed as plain text. Try changing the character encoding or copy the html into a plain text editor and then save out the html.

I'm using Textpad to create the html. When I bring up the html file in Textpad I can't find any characters that look like they don't belong.

However, that was an issue that I ran into on a different site, these tiny ascii square boxes were popping up because sometimes I copy & paste the code from notepad to textpad, or from an e-mail or whatever else. I didn't know that characters could just appear like that. Is there a better program or a way that I can see these undesireable characters to get rid of them?

When you copy the html, you might want to skip the generator signature. Based on the head tags it looks like you did this with FrontPage or another MS product.

I don't know Textpad, but I use Notepad++ for simple web pages and Eclipse when I am working on a more complex site. I have never had troubles like this so I don't know exactly where the problem is, but trying a different text editor might be worth a try. Notepad++ is free as in speech/free as in beer so you can get it from Sourceforge and give it a try.

So it may be as simple as just copying & pasting the text into Notepad++ and then saving it as a html file? Are you saying there's definitely nothing wrong with the code, or missing a certain doctype declaration or something stupid like that?

Word, WordPad, Publisher and even the infamous FrontPage should NEVER be used for web pages. They guarantee that your web pages will NOT be cross-browser compatible because of all the Microsoft Schema code it adds. Only IE and Maxthon understand this code. Additionally, FrontPage requires server extensions be installed to work correctly.